"There was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the showbread; which is called holy. That is often true of Christian life. 38 And my righteous ones will live by faith. Now the apostle puts them upon observing what signs there were of the approach of such a terrible day, and upon being the more constant in meeting together and exhorting one another, that they might be the better prepared for such a day. That is still true. For you had compassion of me and in my bonds, and you took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that you have in heaven a better and an enduring substance ( Hebrews 10:34 ). The apostle argues that, just as the blood of the beast was brought into the holiest of all, while the body of the same animal was taken outside the camp and burnt, so this too must be made good in our portion. He would not accept anymore of these sacrifices. Christians ought to have a tender consideration and concern for one another; they should affectionately consider what their several wants, weaknesses, and temptations are; and they should do this, not to reproach one another, to provoke one another not to anger, but to love and good works, calling upon themselves and one another to love God and Christ more, to love duty and holiness more, to love their brethren in Christ more, and to do all the good offices of Christian affection both to the bodies and the souls of each other. For it is deeply, deeply ingrained.So the time of the writing of the Hebrews, those who had made a profession of Christ, some of them sort going back. A lot of them had their possessions taken away, but they didn't care. Actually, the families would hold funerals for them. Even under the old covenant rebellion met with death. In their own persons; they were made gazing-stocks, spectacles to the world, angels, and men, 1 Corinthians 4:9. For a similar reason we never find life treated in the epistle, nor righteousness. This We Know to Be the Carnal Israel: Circumcision and the Erotic Life of God and Israel (Critical Inquiry 18). They have counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing; that is, the blood of Christ, with which the covenant was purchased and sealed, and wherewith Christ himself was consecrated, or wherewith the apostate was sanctified, that is, baptized, visibly initiated into the new covenant by baptism, and admitted to the Lord's supper. It made a covering for their sins, but it did not put their sins away. The exhortation is based on a number of considerations, among which are these: (1) We have a great high priest who has opened up the new and living way through the veil, that is to say, his flesh. Then he adds: "And to myriads of angels, the general assembly" for such is the true way to divide the verse "and to the church of the firstborn," etc. But whether we look at the heavenly supremacy of Christ over the universe, which is the highest part of the mystery, or at the church associated with Him as His body, composed of both Jew and Gentile, where all distinction is gone, no wit of man ever did or could possibly draw this beforehand from the Old Testament. After the people had been tried and found wanting; after the priests had wrought, if possible, greater corruption; after the king of Israel's choice had reduced them to the lowest degradation. For it is a good thing that the heart be established in grace." Partly, while you were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, while you became companions of them that were so used ( Hebrews 10:33 ). Jesus was the perfect sacrifice because he perfectly did God's will. There is a regulation of the Royal Navy which says: "No officer shall speak discouragingly to another officer in the discharge of his duties." Not to forsake the assembling of ourselves together,Hebrews 10:25; Hebrews 10:25. It is once and for all. They could not understand how it was they should come into greater trouble than before. In full assurance of faith, with a faith grown up to a full persuasion that when we come to God by Christ we shall have audience and acceptance. For the law maketh men priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath which was since the law, a Son perfected (or consecrated) for ever." 10:32-39 Remember the former days. The truth on the contrary is, that there was but one offering and but one suffering of Christ, once for all; in witness of the perfection of which He is gone into the presence of God, there to appear for us. It is a better substance than any thing they can have or lose here. Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? III. It is sui generis; it is one of these masterpieces which can never be done again. They wouldn't have to offer animals once a year in the Holy of Holies. "" Be a Godly-trained disciple: (7) "Don't throw away your confidence" Hebrews 10:32-36 Pastor Florence Luo . (ii) Jesus is the High Priest over God's house in the heavens. It remained for a brief season; but even then it soon began to show rents down. Man's worst sin culminated in the death of Christ who knew no sin; but in that very death He put away sin. The epistle sets before us the seat of glory prepared on high; the Revelation speaks of the bride represented as a glorious golden city with figures beyond nature. Every now and again the writer to the Hebrews speaks with a sternness that is almost without parallel in the New Testament. "A body you have prepared for me," really means, "You created me that in my body and with my body I should do your will." It was not the church, I repeat, but what God prepares above for those who love Him. The scholarly Bloomfield, writing on the importance of patience, says: 1. Remember how, after you had been enlightened, you had to go through a hard struggle of suffering, partly because you yourselves were held up to insult and involved in affliction and partly because you had become partners with people whose life was like that. But if God has changed the heart and if His saving life is "in the vine," the person will repent, endure in faith, and bear fruit unto eternal life. And again, pointing not to our faithfulness, but the faithfulness of God. with. True belief is shown by the way in which one lives. Lectionary Calendar. What fellowship hath light with darkness? Its greatest peril was from the possible evil living and apostasy of its members. Then he descends to a new or fresh covenant (not , as elsewhere, but ), the recently inaugurated covenant for the two houses of the ancient people. Had they been taunted with having no altar, possessing nothing so holy and so glorious in its associations? ", Finally, he beseeches his brethren to hear the word of exhortation. He uses in the most skilful manner the change of the priest, in order to bring along with it a change of the law, the whole Levitical system passing away "but [there is] the bringing in of a better hope." For Christians the promised reward will be at Christs return, when he judges between those who persevere in faith and those who turn back (36-39). There remains for them only a certain fearful looking for of judgment, Hebrews 10:27; Hebrews 10:27. Of course it is true that Jesus took His seat there, but more is conveyed in the true form of the text ( ) here. The last chapter (Hebrews 13:1-25) follows this up with some practical exhortations as to brotherly love continuing; then as to kindness to strangers, or hospitality; finally, as to pity for those in bonds. That's the purpose of gathering and assembling ourselves together is for mutual encouragement, the strengthening of each other, the exhorting of each other. They do not believe that God called all things into being. Reason can appreciate not grace but law; and so people are apt, when things go wrong, to bring in the law. Plug in, Turn on and Be En light ened! This shows that, beyond question, among the Jews of that day, Psalms 110:1-7 was understood to refer to the Christ alone. "Into the second [goes] the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people: the Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way of the holies was not yet made manifest, while as yet the first tabernacle was standing: which is a figure for the present time according to which are offered both gifts and sacrifices that could not, as pertaining to the conscience, make him that did the religious service perfect; which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation." Without faith it is impossible to please God; and the stronger our faith is the more glory we give to God. (4.) And I know many, many Jews that would become Christians, but they are afraid they would no longer be a Jew. He is evidently gone into the holiest of all in His own person. Therefore his sacrifice cannot and need not ever be made again. The reason appears to be, because he is going to tell us of the Old Testament saints. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? So then I said: 'So then I come--in the roll of the book it is written of me--to do, O God, your will."' In order that in this body, He might become the perfect, complete sacrifice for man. It endures for ever, because it has perfected for ever them that are sanctified. The apostle earnestly insists on them both. Therefore it is well to stand clear of all men's schemes and thoughts, ever rising up more and more presumptuously, because they mainly consist of some slight in one way or another on the word of God. Give them a chance too. He is one of the deepest theologians in the New Testament but all his theology is governed by the pastoral instinct. To mark that as yet the veil was unrent. But far from this, it is the simple fact Of the gospel. Matthew 1-10 Matthew 11-28 Mark Luke John 1-7 John 8-21 Acts Romans 1, 2 Corinthians Galatians-Ephesians Philippians-Colossians-1, 2 Thessalonians 1, 2 Timothy-Titus-Philemon Hebrews James-1, 2 Peter 1,2,3 John-Jude Revelation 1-5 Revelation 6-22 . Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me ( Hebrews 10:5 ): Now this is a quotation from Psalm 46 . "With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself. From the beginning to the end of it the Christian in Hebrews is not thus dealt with apart from the old nature, as we may see him regarded in the ordinary epistles of Paul, where the old and the new man are most carefully separated. The writer to the Hebrews began this chapter speaking of faith in the present tense: Now faith is. But once I had made the sin and trespass offerings, then I could bring the burnt offerings.You notice the burnt offering here, and then the sin offerings. He doesn't have to do it every day. When the Messiah was crucified, Judaism was in principle a dead thing: if it was in any sense kept up, it was no more than a decent time before its burial. He is the same unchangingly and evermore, as He has ever been. You're in no position to call the shots. There were in the apostles' times, and should be in every age, Christian assemblies for the worship of God, and for mutual edification. . It is I likely that the Hebrew believers were somewhat unruly. Endurance is essential, since there must always be some waiting time before a promise can be fulfilled. The favourite thought is "development;" and so they hold a development or genesis of matter, not a creation: matter continually progressing, in various forms, until at last it has progressed into these wise men of our day. (196) This then is the only way or means by which we can firmly and constantly advance; we shall not otherwise obey God, nor even enjoy the promised inheritance, which is here by metonymy called the promise. Now there are two doors, two things that can be done for your sins. This section is meant to inspire Christians to be confident, courageous, and uplifted in living out their faith. 28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: 29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? Those were now gone from the scene of their trials and labours, of "whom, considering the issue of their conversation, imitate the faith. Have you come to mock me because of the fate that I have?" And it seems even in those times there were some who forsook these assemblies, and so began to apostatize from religion itself. Nothing but obedience could open the way to God; disobedience set up a barrier that no animal sacrifice could ever take away. This epistle insists on the blood of Christ, making all to turn on that efficacious work for us. And as we are both nourished by the same lamb, then I become a part of God and God becomes a part of me, and I have this fellowship.So God was tired. Blessed is the man who speaks such a word. It would be well if we remembered that, apart from anything else, to go to church is to demonstrate where our loyalty lies. Eliphaz unwillingly paid Job a great tribute. We should lay aside all sinful distrust. (ii) We need fortitude. Hebrews 10:23-25 23 Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise. Every believer struggles daily against sin, not always victoriously. Heaven, therefore, by man's own conviction, must be arrayed in justice against earth because of sin, But the day is coming when Israel shall be no more rebellious, and the nations shall be no longer deceived, and Satan shall be dethroned from his bad eminence, and all idols shall flee apace, and God shall be left the undisputed and evidently Most High, the possessor of heaven and earth. What is the value, the import., of the sacrifice of Christ viewed according to God, and as bearing on His ways? Verses 23-25. At the end of his course there was a still heavier tax on him. Where could they find such a Priest? Here are Christians who were tempted to give up. It is an enduring substance, it will out-live time and run parallel with eternity; they can never spend it; their enemies can never take it from them, as they did their earthly goods. If I know what Christ's redemption has accomplished for all who believe, I must know that God has given me this. 39 But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved. A man might be able to direct an enquirer to Buckingham Palace and yet be very far from having the right to take him into the presence of the Queen; but Jesus can take us the whole way. In the New Testament, patience is the quality of a person who is reliable and unshakable from his intended objective goals. But having done this, He points us to the place of Christ without the camp. This, he maintains, has always been so; it is no novelty he is preaching. "But now once in the consummation of the ages," this is the meaning of "the end of the world;" it is the consummation of those dispensations for bringing out what man was. He encourages them to this by assuring them that the reward of their holy confidence would be very great. Do not throw away your confidence, for it is a confidence that has a great reward. Carefully observe that it is the tabernacle, never the temple. - Let us hold fast the confession (, see Hebrews 3:1, and ref. In its ordinary usage, it has a much deeper force. He followed his exposition of Jesus Christs superior high priestly ministry (Hebrews 6:13 to Hebrews 10:18) with exhortation, another stern warning against apostatizing, and an encouragement to remain faithful to the Lord (Hebrews 10:19-39). brookstone therapeutic percussion massager with lcd screen; do nigel and jennifer whalley still own albury park Sin separates man from God. (iii) We need the memory of the end. Therefore, don't let any man judge you in respect of meat, or drink, or new moons, or holy days or Sabbath days, for these were all a shadow of things to come, but the substance is Christ.So Christ standing here in this point in history. It is Jesus Christ and him crucified for the forgiveness of sins who will save those who believe and repent, and who will return again in glory to judge the living and the dead. Christians are one body, are animated by one spirit, have embarked in one common cause and interest, and are the children of that God who is afflicted in all the afflictions of his people. You are to be one with God and if you then go out and sin you are making God a partner in your sin. All the effort of Christendom is first to deny the one, and then to escape from the other. All scripture, at its deepest, declares that the only sacrifice God desires is obedience; and in the life and death of Jesus that is precisely the sacrifice that God received. But this essential difference separates between the city for which Abraham looked and the bride so symbolised in the Apocalypse. Such is pre-eminently the bearing of this epistle to those who had no such frequent opportunities of profiting by his teaching as the Gentile churches. Few writers have such a sense of the sheer horror of sin. You need fortitude so that, after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise. In the most admirable manner he proves that this was what God was all along waiting for. I have no access to God. Let men who can see only look there, and what will be found? If the one figured the imposed measure of man's responsibility, which can only but most justly condemn him, in the other we behold the mountain of God's grace after all was lost. Therefore is it that men so naturally slip into, or rest on, second causes. All I can say to that is, "Amen!" And observe that it is assumed to be so common and obvious a maxim that it could not be questioned. Its force implies that it is not merely what He did once, but what He is also doing still. This, however, only by the way. the Bible StudyLight org. His answer is that condemnation must necessarily follow, "and so much the more because thou hast read this book." Christianity does not demand the impossible; but if we were always as honest, as kind, as courageous, as courteous as we can be, life would be transformed. Verse 38. But Christendom has wholly failed to profit by the call, and is doomed to perish by a judgment yet more solemn and wide-spread than that which swept away the ancient temple. Now those who know him who hath said, Vengeance belongeth to me, I will recompense, must needs conclude, as the apostle does (Hebrews 10:31; Hebrews 10:31): It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. At first sight every one may have been surprised, especially those that read the New Testament in the language in which God wrote it, at the double meaning of the word which is here translated "covenant." 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